Chapter 45: Interviews are Blind Dates!
The tranquil blue sky is not covered with a single fog, and the brilliant sun does not cover a single cloud, from the early morning to the early spring day. After pushing open the window at the first glance today, Su is "successful" received a job greeting from Xuan Window. He is not used to face-to-face conversations, or even phone calls, but is good at text message communication, which is a problem that many introverted graduates have, but Sue doesn't want to get used to him. Looking at the endless messages, she never replied to a word. She decided to take a day off and take him to an appointment for an interview.
"Less than a week after work, you took a leave of absence? What's the matter? Chengfeng's tone was more like a leader than Ouyang Key.
"How do you know?" Sue looked back and forth.
"When you sent the leave application, I happened to be in the leader's office, and I took a look."
"I have a friend coming over, so accompany him." Su is honest and doesn't want to make any other explanations.
"It just so happens that I'm going out too, let's be your driver, how can I receive friends without a car?" Chengfeng took a few steps forward on his own, seeing that Su was not following up, and looked back again, "Let's go!" ”
"Everyone has their own privacy, and I feel like I can take care of my friends."
Chengfeng listened to her words, paused for a few seconds, opened his mouth for a moment, and didn't say anything, and when he saw Su is turn, he couldn't help but ask behind his back, "It's a man!" ”
Sue didn't answer him.
The moment he saw Xuan Window, Su felt that his identity had changed to the eldest sister again. But the human resources department of the other company had a temporary meeting and changed the interview time to next week, so when Xuan Window proposed to go to Su Yes's company, Su Shi had no choice but to agree.
"That's the case in a big company, as long as you want to, you can keep fighting monsters and upgrading, and appreciate the tricks of various big bosses. Of course, another possibility is that you are constantly being abused by old monsters, but even so, it is a kind of growth. Therefore, I suggest that you can start with the reserve personnel of large companies, there is a saying on the Internet that is very good: often fight with wild beasts, and you will become a Tibetan mastiff; Always mixed with pet dogs, either Pekingese or Chihuahuas. Su is walking into the company's cultural corridor as he spoke.
"Sit, what to drink?" Su is asking Xuan Window to walk into her own small office, "There are all kinds of tea, but no coffee." ”
"What kind of plant is this, it looks so strange." The first thing Xuan Window saw was the mimosa, "I really like to drink coffee, but if you don't have it, you can drink any tea!" ”
"I've got the coffee, I'll make it for you." The man outside the door answered, "Oh, by the way, it's called Mimosa, I gave it to her." ”
Su is white glance at Chengfeng outside the door, and before he could say a word, he was already flashing.
"Is he?"
"Oh, a colleague of mine."
"Colleague?"
"I came from Jiangcheng together, an old colleague, so I'm more familiar."
Su Shi just poured the tea leaves into the cup, and walked in generously with the brewed coffee in the wind, "Come, please taste." Then he sat down in a chair beside the window.
"Thank you!"
"Sue, don't you introduce me?"
"I, classmate, Xuan Window, him, colleague, ride the wind." Su coughed, but still made a brief introduction.
"Hello, Xuan Window, is it your first time in Haicheng? Didn't I take a day off to walk with you? I originally came to pick you up by car, Haicheng is big, it is more convenient to have a car, she is unwilling. Chengfeng's words were neither light nor heavy, even a fool could hear it, and he said it as if he was very close to Su.
"It's the second time I've come to Haicheng, two weeks ago, I met Su Shi once, and she also accompanied me to visit a lot of places." Xuan Window took a sip of coffee and answered his question very seriously.
"The first two weeks? First lunar month? Chengfeng counted the days in his heart, and suddenly understood that it was the scene that Su met at the airport, and his heart began to heat up with the heat of coffee, but his face still tried to remain calm, "It's really rare, she is more attentive to her colleagues than to her classmates!" ”
"Chengfeng, aren't you busy with work today? I have something to talk to him. Sue interrupted their conversation, "It seems like it's my classmate, not you." ”
"My job today is to talk to you about the personnel of my department, but since you have a classmate here, why don't I listen to you talk first, and then talk about the matter between us." Chengfeng increased the volume of our two words, "By the way, classmate, I'm here, don't you mind?" ”
"Oh, it's fine, don't mind." Xuan Window didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only pick up the coffee again and drink it again.
"I know you're going to say mind, or I'll sit outside and wait for you to finish talking." Chengfeng didn't wait for Su to embarrass him, and then preemptively attacked.
"No, we're also talking about the interview, I'll just help him find a job in Haicheng." Su was suspicious of Chengfeng's face, but he didn't want to quarrel with him in front of his classmates, so he had to give up.
"That's right, if you are there, you can also help me refer to it more," Xuan Window is a good old man, busy giving Chengfeng a good opportunity to step down.
Many people say that interviews are like blind dates, depending on fate. In fact, both blind dates and interviews follow the same "contrast" competition, which requires everyone to sort out and review their own advantages. Chengfeng was really not polite, and spoke directly first.
"Say, go on." Sue ignored him and encouraged him to continue.
"Don't, I'll start, you are professional in this area first, you say, you say. Pay attention," Chengfeng shut up, looked at the window, and carefully looked at the identity of this "classmate".
"Before the interview, you should review your experience by asking at least the following two questions: 1. What is my most outstanding achievement in each of my past professional experiences? Based on what kind of background did I do at that time, what core management actions did I make, and what kind of results did I achieve? Second, what are the biggest difficulties and challenges I have encountered in my current work experience? What are the specific difficulties, and how do I think about and overcome them? ”
"Yes, you'll have to think hard before you answer those two questions." Chengfeng answered first, and seeing that Su was glaring at him again, he had no choice but to fiddle with the mimosa on the table.
"I know that a lot of people don't have a good career because they don't prepare for the interview. I and another classmate both applied for jobs in the previous company, two people with the same position, similar background, and similar ability, and jumped to another company together, and now he has got the position of director, managing a large team, and his salary has doubled, while my salary has increased slightly. So I often ask myself: why is there such a big difference between my colleagues at the same level as me when I was in the company? ”
In fact, the company's fixed position and salary for candidates are matched with the candidate's "ability", and you are not given it, often because the company thinks that your ability is not enough. When judging the ability of talents, most companies use the "behavioral interview method", which predicts the future performance of candidates through their past behavior. I have met many candidates with very good resumes, and some of them were directly recommended to me by friends who said that they were very capable of working, but their performance in the interview was mediocre and there were no bright spots. In order not to lose talent, I asked my peers about his actual performance and received a positive answer, so I recommended him to the executive for an interview, and the conversation process was also dull and uneventful, no surprises, and finally decided to give up on this person. ”
"It seems that eloquence is also important."
"No, the most important comprehensive strength, including the interview force, I have encountered an interview in the case is only decent, did not see the height of the vision pattern and the breakthrough of the business strategy, my company did not use him, and then I heard that he also went to other companies to talk, did not get a satisfactory opportunity, and finally internal transfer to manage the new business, do a good job, remarkable results, it can be seen that this person is indeed very capable, but failed to get external appreciation."
"Every interviewer has a talent pool in his head, and when he interviews a new person, he subconsciously compares himself to the people he has met before." Chengfeng saw that the windows took out their notebooks to record, and spoke at the right time.
"Your answer to each question, in the context of the answers he has heard, determines his overall assessment of you. Therefore, the core of your interview is: how to occupy a favorable position in the interviewer's mind in a limited time? Based on my experience of interviewing thousands of people, the following points are the issues that need to be paid attention to in high-end positions: First of all, don't talk nonsense: for example, the engineering director, many people will say that they must do a good job in project planning, manage the general subcontractor, strictly control the quality and progress, and check the risk before delivery, etc., these superficial routines that everyone will say are nonsense. What the interviewer wants to hear is an in-depth summary and reflection, such as quality management, what are the specific challenges you encounter? What are some of the unusual management actions you've taken? How do you ensure that management is on the ground and effective? Then talk about some difficult ones: for example, the marketing director, some people say that they just need to sell smoothly, some people talk about using small investment to obtain excess premiums, and some people talk about bringing the unsalable dead plate back to life. But it is clear that in a short interview time, difficult cases are more likely to impress the interviewer. Finally, when meeting the city manager, one candidate will tell the story of the city's development pattern, future plans, official characteristics and competition, and explain in detail the business strategy that matches it, and the in-depth understanding of the city, the future and the opponent is impressive, and this alone kills other candidates. Therefore, it is important for candidates to review their own experiences and abilities, think about what are the examples that are unique, far above others, and leading in the industry, to find a competitive advantage that exceeds the interviewer's expectations, and to seize career opportunities. ”
"Thank you." Su is took the cup handed over by Chengfeng and drank it in a big gulp, after all, she had spent a lot of effort after saying so much in one breath.
"Good, good, that's a great point." Chengfeng applauded, drawing the window from his notebook.
"Now that we're done talking, I'll invite you to dinner, right?" Chengfeng obviously greeted her classmates with the appearance of a master, "Of course, if you don't pay attention to eating, it doesn't mean that your classmates don't pay attention to it, when it comes to Haicheng's specialties, I definitely know better than you." Let's go! The added sentence made Su have to deny it.
Her classmates were handed over to her colleagues to receive her!